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It’s just like the game “Six Degrees of
Kevin Bacon”. You know how it goes…someone
throws out an actor’s name and you have to try
to connect them to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less.
I thought it might be fun to do the same thing with
the theater’s luminaries. I will be trying to
connect them to the longest running show in Broadway
history, The Phantom of the Opera and its very first “Phantom”,
Michael Crawford.
Before he was George Constanza, the odious friend of
Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld, Jason Alexander was a song
and dance man on Broadway. He made his Broadway debut
as Joe in Merrily We Roll Along (1981). His other appearances
on Broadway were The Rink (1984), Broadway Bound (1986),
Accomplice (1990) and his Tony Award winning performance
in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (1989).
1) Jason Alexander did Jerome Robbins’ Broadway
with Irene Cho
2) Irene Cho was the one of the ballet chorus of the
Opéra Populaire in the The Phantom of the Opera
with Michael Crawford.
“
There’s not a tune you can hum.
There’s not a tune you go bum-bum-bum-di-dum.
You need a tune you can bum-bum-bum-di-dum –
Give me some melody!”
Joe in Merrily We Roll Along
So that’s the game. Join me each week as I try to come up with new ways
of connecting Michael Crawford to the entire theater community.
